US2025229182A1PendingUtilityA1

Method for changing skin of virtual item, and non-transitory storage medium and electronic device thereof

Assignee: NETEASE HANGZHOU NETWORK CO LTDPriority: Apr 20, 2022Filed: Sep 21, 2022Published: Jul 17, 2025
Est. expiryApr 20, 2042(~15.7 yrs left)· nominal 20-yr term from priority
Inventors:Wentong Yong
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Abstract

A method for changing a skin of a virtual item, a non-transitory storage medium and an electronic device are disclosed. The method includes: in response to a skin-changing touch operation for a target part, displaying a skin control of a first to-be-selected skin corresponding to the target part, wherein the virtual item includes a plurality of parts and the target part is one of the plurality of parts, a graphical user interface is provided by a terminal device, and content displayed by the graphical user interface includes the virtual item; and in response to a first selection touch operation for a target skin control of a target skin in the skin control, changing a current skin of the target part into the target skin.

Claims

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1 . A method for changing a skin of a virtual item, comprising:
 in response to a skin-changing touch operation for a target part, displaying a skin control of a first to-be-selected skin corresponding to the target part, wherein the virtual item comprises a plurality of parts and the target part is one of the plurality of parts, a graphical user interface is provided by a terminal device, and content displayed by the graphical user interface comprises the virtual item; and   in response to a first selection touch operation for a target skin control of a target skin in the skin control, changing a current skin of the target part into the target skin.   
     
     
         2 . The method according to  claim 1 , wherein in response to the skin-changing touch operation for the target part, displaying the skin control of the first to-be-selected skin corresponding to the target part comprises:
 in response to a first skin-changing touch operation for the virtual item, displaying respective first skin-changing controls corresponding to the plurality of parts in the virtual item; and   in response to a second skin-changing touch operation for a target first skin-changing control of the target part in the respective first skin-changing controls, displaying the skin control of the first to-be-selected skin corresponding to the target part.   
     
     
         3 . The method according to  claim 2 , wherein in response to the first skin-changing touch operation for the virtual item, displaying the respective first skin-changing controls corresponding to the plurality of parts in the virtual item comprises:
 in response to the first skin-changing touch operation for the virtual item, jumping a current display interface to a modification interface of the virtual item; and   displaying, in the modification interface, the respective first skin-changing controls corresponding to the plurality of parts.   
     
     
         4 . The method according to  claim 2 , wherein the method further comprises:
 displaying a guide component configured to indicate a correspondence between a part in the virtual item and a first skin-changing control.   
     
     
         5 . The method according to  claim 2 , wherein the method further comprises:
 in response to a second selection touch operation for a skin recommendation control, displaying a skin control of a recommendation skin of the target part.   
     
     
         6 . The method according to  claim 5 , wherein the method further comprises:
 determining current skin theme information of the virtual item; and   determining, as the recommendation skin, a part skin whose matching degree with the current skin theme information is greater than a preset matching degree in a part skin library of the target part.   
     
     
         7 . The method according to  claim 5 , wherein sizes of skin controls of respective recommendation skins are positively related to corresponding matching degrees; or,
 the skin controls of the respective recommendation skins are arranged in order according to magnitudes of the corresponding matching degrees.   
     
     
         8 . The method according to  claim 1 , wherein displaying the skin control of the first to-be-selected skin corresponding to the target part comprises:
 determining an account level of an account to which the virtual item belongs;   selecting, according to the account level, at least one part skin corresponding to the account level from a part skin library of the target part as the first to-be-selected skin; and   displaying the skin control of the first to-be-selected skin.   
     
     
         9 . The method according to  claim 8 , wherein selecting, according to the account level, the at least one part skin corresponding to the account level from the part skin library of the target part as the first to-be-selected skin comprises:
 selecting, according to the account level, the at least one part skin corresponding to the account level from the part skin library of the target part as an initial first to-be-selected skin; and   in response to a first purchase operation for a part skin in the initial first to-be-selected skin, determining the part skin corresponding to the first purchase operation as a target first to-be-selected skin.   
     
     
         10 . The method according to  claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:
 in response to a skin acquisition operation for the target part of the plurality of parts, storing a skin corresponding to the skin acquisition operation as a to-be-selected skin in a part skin library to which the target part belongs.   
     
     
         11 . The method according to  claim 10 , wherein in response to the skin-changing touch operation for the target part of the plurality of parts, displaying the skin control of the first to-be-selected skin corresponding to the target part comprises:
 in response to the skin-changing touch operation for the target part of the plurality of parts, selecting from the part skin library a skin corresponding to the target part as the first to-be-selected skin; and   displaying the skin control of the first to-be-selected skin.   
     
     
         12 . The method according to  claim 10 , wherein in response to the skin acquisition operation for the target part of the plurality of parts, storing the skin corresponding to the skin acquisition operation as the to-be-selected skin in the part skin library to which the target part belongs comprises:
 in response to a second purchase operation for a skin of the target part of the plurality of parts, storing the skin corresponding to the second purchase operation as the to-be-selected skin in the part skin library to which the target part belongs.   
     
     
         13 . The method according to  claim 1 , wherein the skin control of the first to-be-selected skin is associated with a skin purchase control of the first to-be-selected skin; and
 in response to the first selection touch operation for the target skin control of the target skin in the skin control, changing the current skin of the target part into the target skin comprises:   in response to a third purchase operation for the skin purchase control, determining the first to-be-selected skin corresponding to the third purchase operation as an initial target skin; and   in response to the first selection touch operation for the target skin control of the target skin in the initial target skin, changing the current skin of the target part into the target skin.   
     
     
         14 . The method according to  claim 2 , wherein in response to the second skin-changing touch operation for the target first skin-changing control of the target part in the respective first skin-changing controls, displaying the skin control of the first to-be-selected skin corresponding to the target part comprises:
 in response to the second skin-changing touch operation for the target first skin-changing control of the target part in the respective first skin-changing controls, displaying, in a first display area of a current display interface, the skin control of the first to-be-selected skin corresponding to the target part; and   displaying, in a second display area of the current display interface, a second skin-changing control corresponding to a changeable part, wherein the changeable part is a part that is available for being changed at an installation position of the target part in the virtual item.   
     
     
         15 . The method according to  claim 14 , wherein the method further comprises:
 in response to a third selection touch operation for a target second skin-changing control of a target changing part in the second skin-changing control, displaying a second to-be-selected skin corresponding to the target changing part.   
     
     
         16 . The method according to  claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:
 in response to an overall skin-changing operation for the virtual item, displaying an item skin control of an item skin corresponding to the virtual item; and   in response to a fourth selection touch operation for a target item skin control of a target item skin in the item skin control of the item skin, changing a current overall item skin of the virtual item into the target item skin.   
     
     
         17 . (canceled) 
     
     
         18 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having a computer program stored thereon which, when executed by a processor, implements:
 in response to a skin-changing touch operation for a target part, displaying a skin control of a first to-be-selected skin corresponding to the target part, wherein the virtual item comprises a plurality of parts and the target part is one of the plurality of parts, a graphical user interface is provided by a terminal device, and content displayed by the graphical user interface comprises the virtual item; and   in response to a first selection touch operation for a target skin control of a target skin in the skin control, changing a current skin of the target part into the target skin.   
     
     
         19 . An electronic device, comprising:
 a processor; and   a memory, configured to store executable instructions of the processor;   wherein the processor is configured to:   in response to a skin-changing touch operation for a target part, display a skin control of a first to-be-selected skin corresponding to the target part, wherein the virtual item comprises a plurality of parts and the target part is one of the plurality of parts, a graphical user interface is provided by a terminal device, and content displayed by the graphical user interface comprises the virtual item; and   in response to a first selection touch operation for a target skin control of a target skin in the skin control, change a current skin of the target part into the target skin.   
     
     
         20 . The method according to  claim 9 , wherein a purchase amount corresponding to the initial first to-be-selected skin is displayed on a current display interface through a display component or a payment component. 
     
     
         21 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to  claim 18 , wherein the computer program stored thereon which, when executed by the processor, further implements:
 in response to a first skin-changing touch operation for the virtual item, displaying respective first skin-changing controls corresponding to the plurality of parts in the virtual item; and   in response to a second skin-changing touch operation for a target first skin-changing control of the target part in the respective first skin-changing controls, displaying the skin control of the first to-be-selected skin corresponding to the target part.

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